mattchew

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by mattchew 17y ago
I hope Roubini is wrong, but I have to be amused at the people who want to put duct tape over his mouth. We have too much debt in the U.S. Our solution so far has been to transfer bad debt from the banks to the government, and then add a b
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by mattchew 18y ago
I love it. Simple enough for me to actually use. That's rare.
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by mattchew 18y ago
Hear hear. I do not doubt that shit ain't easy. But that doesn't stop politicians from doing half-assed implementations of much more difficult projects, so I don't think that's any kind of excuse for not legalizing pot.
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by mattchew 18y ago
"I do not think that phrase means what you think it means . . ." oh, wait, who was the author of the article again? The article is strange to me. First, I thought Taleb scorned the FT crowd. Second, since when did he start writing in bull
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by mattchew 18y ago
Blithely asserted. But suppose it is correct. Do you think parents might start caring more about managing their kids' educations if they could see that caring more actually made a difference?
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by mattchew 18y ago
I was scanning and did a double take on this part: "A high net-worth individual with whom the Baldwins have partnered" For a moment I thought they were talking about Alec Baldwin and his brothers as producers. My Imp of the Perverse is sad
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by mattchew 18y ago
I was wondering why anyone would want to make polychlorinated biphenyls at home.
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by mattchew 18y ago
Being an articulate advocate for an extreme position is an accomplishment all by itself. It opens people's minds. It makes people smarter. I think RMS's positions are extreme. I don't share most of his views, including his latest concern
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by mattchew 18y ago
Pro. I'm not a zombie-movie aficionado, but I've seen several. My favorite is probably Dead and Breakfast. Comic horror, musical interludes. I liked it better than Shawn of the Dead. Fun. If you're going for scary, though, I vote for s
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by mattchew 18y ago
You can hope for a popular backlash against big government and associated interest groups. This happens from time to time, and sometimes the interest groups get pushed back somewhat as a result. I think this is unlikely in the U.S. any tim
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by mattchew 18y ago
Very good writing. You have to distrust yourself a little after reading an article like this. Am I persuaded by the message, or charmed by the style?
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by mattchew 18y ago
Let me compare you to http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ which is what I used a few weeks ago when I needed a pretty image button. What I like better there: * Their button has a really sharp glossy look. Yours are nice, but not as nice (that I
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by mattchew 18y ago
I'm pleased to hear that you're interested in the problem of attractive/addictive distractions. Important, interesting problem. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts. Here's a relevant thread from Overcoming Bias. It is more about
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by mattchew 18y ago
What vaskel said. You may have more leverage than you think. I'm pretty sure in my state (Kansas) your credit rating cannot be dinged for late payment on a medical bill. Used to be the case anyway. It would be handy to know if that was
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by mattchew 18y ago
Which is why PG and RTM worked so hard to develop the admission test for YC applicants . . .
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by mattchew 18y ago
I'm currently [one of] the best physics students in the UK and I'd pay anything to have had an uprising like that, Sure, because you are (unrealistically) imagining yourself compelled to excel at your current aspiration . Consider inste
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by mattchew 18y ago
I'm sure you took my meaning. It doesn't sound like you're correct though. At least S & P suggested that the U.S. might lose it's AAA rating. (Note also the article is from 2006, while we were still in the boom.) http://www.savings-b
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by mattchew 18y ago
Yes, of course, let us in the U.S. keep telling ourselves that China (and Japan) have no other option but to keep extending us ever increasing amounts of debt. Our credit is safe , it is rated AAA, there are no other outlets, a U.S. deb
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by mattchew 18y ago
Wealth is being extracted in the form of +trillion dollar bailouts. The loss comes from the taxpayer (and eventually, dollar holders), so it isn't quite what the OP meant, but there is one hell of an extraction taking place.
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by mattchew 18y ago
Can you get your husband to take a couple of days off from work and watch the kids himself, while you are out of the house? This will educate him better than any words you could ever say. You might look around for more sympathetic listener
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by mattchew 18y ago
The dumb behavior is not just from identity, but from identity as part of a social group . People identify strongly with plenty of things without getting stupid over them. Being a good bargain hunter, or a collector of ceramic frogs, or h
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by mattchew 18y ago
For those of us that need it, it makes all kinds of sense. Figuring out better ways to control future me is an ongoing project of mine. A couple weeks ago I gave my buddy $20, if I get my app out for sale by the end of the month I get it b
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by mattchew 18y ago
Heh. Meta discussion that is also on topic. Note that the article is from 2003. This problem has been around for a long time. As far as I know, no one has ever really solved it. One thing I've noticed on Reddit and Digg is that discussio
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by mattchew 18y ago
I'd love to see grading and ranking and sorting separated from teaching and learning. IMO grading (as opposed to guidance and correction) is destructive to real learning. At the least, we should separate the teacher from the grader. To me
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by mattchew 18y ago
I searched for a couple of old co-workers and got a torrent of garbage results. Also, slooooooow. There is good, and then there is not good. This is not good.
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by mattchew 18y ago
> the usually-excellent reliability and stability that Google usually offers This is most of why I put aside my reservations and used them as a registrar intermediate. I am quite sure I said to myself, "well, you can trust Google". My
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by mattchew 18y ago
My ASP.NET is a little rusty, but I did a fair bit upon a time. Bottom line, if you drink the Kool-Aid and do it their way, it's not so bad. If you try to translate some other web stack concepts into ASP.NET, you're going to be very frust
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by mattchew 18y ago
I think the vast majority of our society would function just fine if ~10% of the populace worked a 40 hour week. It may not be obvious why hiring a cashier to run your gas station is better than buying a credit card reader and a vending m
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by mattchew 18y ago
One of the guys that trimmed my maple tree this fall used to be a garbage man, and he said the hours were terrible and the pay wasn't very good. This surprised me because I also thought garbage men made pretty good money. We do have compet
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by mattchew 18y ago
I'd recommend writing your own contract/agreement if you can. Keep it short and simple, what you'll do, how much you'll get paid, when you'll get paid. Also, that you own the code. I'd recommend being up front about possible reselling.

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